Cicero Speaks

After rioting in the streets of Rome due to a contrived bread shortage Cicero speaks:

"None of us needs to be reminded again... of the frightful violence that gripped the city yesterday. Violence which has at its core a shortage of that most basic of human needs: bread.

Some of us believe that it was an ill day when our citizens were granted a free dole of corn in the first place. 

For, it is human nature that what starts as gratitude, quickly becomes dependency, and ends as entitlement. 

This is the pass we have reached."